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- REMEMBERING NORMAN CORWIN, THE POET LAUREATE OF RADIO (Asbury Park Press)
Recently, I agreed to be a guest lecturer at a friend's media class.
- Singer credits Guthrie's influence (The Oklahoman)
When emerging singer-songwriter Samantha Crain lists her musical influences, they wind from her dad's favorites including the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan to the electronic experiments of Radiohead to fellow Oklahomans such as Student Film and Ali Harter. "I'd say a major part of my musical influence does come from Oklahoma, and ... the Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie are probably two of my ...
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company Announces 'Teacher Tales' - Broadway World
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Announces 'Teacher Tales'Broadway World, NY - 1 hour agoTraffic provides an intimate and unique intersection of language, lyrics, poetry and music, creating a fresh perspective on expressing the American story. ...
- ‘Tolerance is essential, Mr Laden,’ pupil (Việt Nam News)
"Tolerance is essential to all relationships set up by human beings. The important thing is not what each person receives but what they can offer." This is an excerpt from a letter by tenth-grade student Ho Thi Que Chi to Muslim terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
- Helping stroke victims find their voice again - Woking News and Mail
Helping stroke victims find their voice againWoking News and Mail, UK - 26 minutes ago“We get them to practise memory recall through pictures, words poetry and quizzes and we try to get them to talk all the time. “Some people are completely ...
- Best in Verse It's National Poetry Month—what should you read? - Slate
Poets talk about the attention brought by National Poetry Month the way kids talk about food at summer camp—it's terrible, and there's not enough of it. For the rest of the reading world, the initiative has all the appeal of a charity drive. While ...
- Serenity prayer stirs up doubt: Who wrote it? (International Herald Tribune)
The prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene.
- Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By SALAH NASRAWI Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions of Saddam's prison diaries that it obtained from U.S. authorities. The U.S. military confirmed some of the late Iraqi leader's writings had ...
- We're not number one - Capitol Hill Blue
Capitol Hill BlueWe're not number oneCapitol Hill Blue, VA - May 22, 2008It takes the death of a Princess Di or a scandal with a White House intern to release inspirational moonbeams to play on the foreheads of America's ...
- Old folk to show off artistic talents - Mansfield Chad
Old folk to show off artistic talentsMansfield Chad, UK - 2 hours ago... drama, poetry and prose, drumming and contemporary dance. There will also be a performance from sister group ‘Grey Matters’ who will have their new book ...
- Heard It At School - Rutland Herald
More than 50 Rutland Middle School students recently read their works to an audience of more than 150 students and parents at the 13th annual Rutland Middle School Coffeehouse. Students presented essays and poems they had written throughout the year ...
- The Bell Jar Tolls - Newsweek
The Bell Jar TollsNewsweek - 1 hour agoGod tries to teach him to say ""Love,'' but Crow can only retch, and out of his vomit is born man and woman. The critics were polarized. ""English poetry ...
- 2008 Midsummer Night Swing & Lincoln Center Out of Doors (Playbill Arts)
Under new leadership, the popular Lincoln Center outdoor summer series will kick off July 8 with Midsummer Night Swing . Due to ongoing construction in the Plaza, both Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors have been moved to Damrosch Park (62nd Street at Amsterdam Ave) for the year.
- Kennedy's returns - Boston Globe
Kennedy's returnsBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoTED KENNEDY'S dramatic appearance Wednesday to cast a decisive vote on a Medicare bill is a reminder of how much poorer American politics would be without ...
- 3 in 4 Minn. sophomores satisfy reading requirement - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Three-quarters of Minnesota sophomores can begin their summer break knowing they've performed well enough on a state reading exam to satisfy a requirement for high school graduation. As freshmen, they faced a writing exam with diploma implications ...
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